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TIL about Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments who slashed his own salary from $1.1 million to $70k, in order to make sure every single one of his employees received a salary of $70k

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Z8myD TIL of Dwayne Stafford, the man who became a legend by sneaking out of his jail cell and beating Dylan Roof, the shooter of a church in Charleston, SC. He then began a GoFundMe account, and earned enough money for bond, and the legend grew
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